Joy of Cooking has, besides possum, recipes for squirrel, porcupine ("Skin by hanging back legs from hooks"), raccoon (with sweet potato and apple dressing), muskrat, woodchuck, beaver (the tail is apparently the best part) and armadillo, for which the instructions are "Draw and cut free from the shell". I suspect they left out some detail there.

According to "Joy of Cooking", one skins an eel by hanging it from a hook and using pliers.In case of apocalypse, I believe "Joy of Cooking" should get me over the tough parts of cooking random animals. Including bear, which you should cook thoroughly to avoid trichinosis.The father of an acquaintance of mine is quite enthusiastic about scooping up and making use of deer that have been hit by cars (recently dead ones, of course; he's not stupid), and once, on seeing the usual somewhat damaged car plus dead deer, stopped, despite his truck being in the shop, and transported the deer home in the back seat of a Dodge Neon.

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